Window-screen.



H. HIGGIN.

WINDOW SCREEN.

APPLICATION FILED oc'r.1, 19:5.

Patentd Dec 4,

z I l/r /7/ all W HENRY HIGGIN, 0F NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOJR. TO THE HIGGIN MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented nee. a, laid.

Application filed October 7, 1915. Serial No. 54,489.

iWindow-Screens, of which the following is" a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to window screens specially adapted to use in railroad cars and the like, where a screen should be adequately protected and yet be of easy operation in raising and lowering the same.

It is the object of my invention to provide a screen ofthis character which is protected from being removed or lifted from the outside of the window, and which is of easy operation from the inside. llt is also the object to provide for both raising and lowering the screen so that the window of the car or the like will not interfere with either movement.

construction and arrangement ofparts to be ghereinafter more specifically pointed out till and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is an outside elevation of the screen in place in a window frame.

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective View of the top or bottom screen molding.

Fig. 3 is an inside elevation of the screen on a larger scale than Fig.1, showing the screen removed from the window, with its frame partly broken away.-

I Fig. 4. is a" horizontal sectional view through the right hand screen molding and the side guide on the window frame, taken on the line 4,4, of Fig. 3. p

Fig. 5is a perspective yiew of the built-in loop for lowering the screen, together with its mounting members.

Fig. 6 is" a vertical section of this loop,

mounted in the lower screen molding.

Mounted on the window frame 1 are the side guide strips 2 on'which the screen is to channel for reoeiving the screen wire retain,

ing molding, and a' main frame ortion between the two channels, Accor ingly one strip is bent to form the outer wall 3 of the scr wire channel, left flat'to form the inside face 4 of the molding, bent back on itselfandover another strip to form the wall 5 of the guide channel. This second strip is then bent to form the base 6 and the outer wall 7 of the guide channel, back on itself at 8 to form the outer moldingliface, and then angularly back to the face 4, and

along this wall at 9 to be secured by tacking or the like to this wall 4, thereby forming a. stout molding, having the desired channels and body portion.

In one of the side moldings, the outside wall 7 of the guide channel is shorter than the inside wall 5, so that when the screen is made upit may be inserted into a car window, over the side guides, and removed therefrom on the inside of the window only. This short wall is not desired except on one side of the screen, as the usual retaining springs are to be mounted in the other channel, to hold the screen in place. i

In the guide channel of the side molding where the wall 7 is long, there are these two retaining springs 2 which have one end held in slots (not shown) in the base of the channel. place on the guides in the usual manner and they engage over the corner braces to be described, whereby the side, top and bottom moldings are held together.

The top and bottom moldings are constructed in any desired manner so as to have a rectangular body portion 11 and a channel 12.

Corner braces having a narrow arm 10 and a broad arm 10 are inserted in the narrow central inclosed spacesleft in the side moldings now described, and in the wider rectangular spaces left in the top and bottom moldings to h' ld together and reinforce the screen frame at the corner. side and top moldings .are mitered soas to fit together and form a proper corner, as is also the bottom molding. The top or wide portion 10* of the .upper corner braces is thick, and a passageway 10 formed in this portion for the locking rods to be described.

In the frame formed as so described, the

v wire netting 13 is to be inserted, being held desired type.

The

These serve to hold the screen in lot,

'llllll ing and operating members of screens of the The locking member for the screen is formed as follows: In the center of the top screen molding is set an oval shaped plate 16. This plate is open to the inside of the screen and has guided-in it, looking rods 17, 17, which extend to the sides of the screen. These rods lie inside the rectangular body of the top screen molding, and extend out in this passageway past the mitered corner of the moldings passing through the passageways 10 of the corner braces. Springs 18, 18, on these rods bearing on the rods and on the oval piece, serve to keep the rods in a normal position, pressed out against the side guides in the window frame.

On the ends of the rods, inside of the oval piece, are heads 19, 19, by which they may be pinched together by an operator. The screen guides have notches on them (not shown), which engage the ends of the rods at desired points. One of these points is so located as to hold the screen locked shut in its lowest position against the bottom of the window screen, and another is located at the top of the desired ,screen movement. The rods have their ends beveled at 20, 20, so that the screen cannot be forced upwardly when the rods are in the notches, but so that it can be pulled downwardly. Thus in raising the screen, the operator on the inside of the car will pinch together the rods 17 and push up the screen by pressing upwardly on the same.

In lowering the screen, means are provided for pulling it down. These means are located in the base of the screen and are adapted tobe forced up in the lower screen molding. It will not make any difference whether the locking rods are in a position out of the reach of the operator, as all that is necessary is to pull down on the screen,

when the beveled ends of the rods will ride up out of the notches in the side uides.

A small metal stamping is provlded, having a central chamber 21, the same having side walls 22 and a top 23, and being open at the bottom, front and rear. The base 24 of the stamping extends in both directions from the side walls of the chamber, and the side walls are cut away to receive a small bar 25 which is to be mounted over the base and will extend across the open base of the chamber.

This whole device is to be set into the hollow portion of the base frame of the screen and the screws 26 inserted through the under side of the frame and through the extending base portions. The loop 27 which is rectangular in shape by preference, is set over the bar, and when the bar is screwed down tightly against the molding the loop may take a position completely inside or concealed in the chamber 21. The molding is cut at the base of the screen so as to allow the loop to hang out when the screen is raised, and thus the loop will be available for pulling down the screen as above described. 1

When the screen is shut down, the loop will automatically pass up inside of the molding, without any liability to jam and keep the screen open, as it is to be made to fit the retaining bar closely, and its side edges will just fit the chamber 21 in the small stamping.

The screen cannot be removed from without, nor can it be raised from without. The locking means are located at the top of the screen and will pass up under the car window, but this, as described, will be of no disadvantage as the concealed loop will then be available for pulling down the screen.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a window screen, a lower molding therefor having a hollow space therein, a loop retaining member in the hollow space, a loop, a chamber in the retaining member to receive said loop, and means in the base of the chamber for engaging inside of said loop, whereby the same may be suspended from or concealed in said retaining member, for the purpose described.

2. In a knockdown window screen, an upper molding therefor having a channel therein and a hollow space therein, springpressed rods in said channel, side moldings having a hollow space therein, corner braces having members to fit the hollow spaces of the side and top moldings, the upper portion of the braces being thickened to engage the channel therein also, and passageways for the rods in the thickened portions, for the purpose described.

3. A molding for screens comprising two bent metallic portions, one portion bent to form a channel for a side guide, and the other to complete a channel for the retaining spline, with the two parts locked together to form a complete molding by an overlapping seam at the outer edge of the guide channel and by tacking at the base of the spline channel.

' 4. A molding for screens, comprising two bent metallic portions, one portion bent to form a channel for a side guide, and the other to complete a channel for the retaining s'pline,'with the two parts locked together to form a complete molding by an overlapping seam at the outer edge of the guide channel and by tacking at the base of the spline channel, the side channel guide having one wall shorter than the other.

HENRY HIGGIN. 

